--- title: Coal, oil and gas power stations burn fuel to boil water into steam… — Fuels, the Sun and saving energy · tree and pragmatics description: Coal, oil and gas power stations burn fuel to boil water into steam that spins turbines, but these fossil fuels took millions of years to form, will run out, and put carbon dioxide into the air, which warms the planet. Who acts: Coal oil power stations, steam, fossil fuels, air. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coal oil power stations, steam, fossil fuels, air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:032-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy.lesson:2 # text = Coal, oil and gas power stations burn fuel to boil water into steam that spins turbines, but these fossil fuels took millions of years to form, will run out, and put carbon dioxide into the air, which warms the planet. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 032-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 stations station NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 burn burn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 9 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 boil boil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 turbines turbine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 21 fossil fossil NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 fuels fuel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 24 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 form form VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 32 out out ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=31:punct 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 36 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 dioxide dioxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 warms warm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 planet planet NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burn** | present | Coal oil power stations | fuel | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme | | 2 | **boil** | to-infinitive | Coal oil power stations *not said here* | water | | | | into steam *result* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent water=Patient into steam=Result | | 3 | **spin** | present | steam | turbines | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent turbine=Theme | | 4 | **take** | past | this fossil fuels | millions of years | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme | | 5 | **form** | to-infinitive | this fossil fuels *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **run out** | future | Coal oil power stations *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **put** | infinitive | Coal oil power stations *not said here* | carbon dioxide | | the air | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dioxide=Goal | | 8 | **warm** | present | the air | the planet | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent planet=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:physics:032-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy.lesson:2`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Fuels, the Sun and saving energy, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy/1/) - next →: [Fuels, the Sun and saving energy, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy/)